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Will IndyCar Give NASCAR a Run For Its Money? | Coffee With Kenny · Kenny Wallace Media

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  Happy Friday morning, everybody. About 10:30.
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  Hell, I just slept in. I don't.
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  I like it. I like it.
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  You know what I'm doing here lately?
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  I don't take pills. I've never taken any pills.
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  I don't like pills. But the older I get, all my
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  older friends, they say, Wallace, you need to take that
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  magnesium. You need to take that magnesium.
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  I said, all right, I've had the smartest doctors, the smartest
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  people, you know, I go for my physicals.
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  I make sure I'm in tip top shape.
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  I do my best. Well, they say that magnesium
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  makes makes you sleep good. Well, I go to bed about 11:30
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  every night. Kim's on that damn phone just to
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  lighten up the bedroom. I'm like, Kim, put that damn
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  phone away. I get up, go to the bathroom
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  about 3:00 in the morning. She's still on the phone.
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  But here lately I've been sleeping till about nine, 9:00
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  and I feel like $1,000,000. So respond right here.
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  Tell me what you know about magnesium.
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  All right, everybody, I see, I see a storm of brewing.
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  I see a storm of brewing. Didn't think I had anything to
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  say today until I got on X. And it appears that we got some
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  people that are becoming quite jealous of the IndyCar league.
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  So I'll paint the picture here. And then you you probably don't
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  know anything about this, but I'll paint the picture, as they
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  say on AM debate radio to see if you're listening to radio you
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  can't see right, you listening. So what's going on is Eric
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  Shanks and all the boys over there, Fox Sports, Fox TV, they
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  decided to cover the IndyCar league and you know, they're
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  they're going to cover the IndyCar league, but don't feel
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  sorry for NASCAR because NASCAR took all these TV people, you
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  know, they got everything laid out the contract wise, right?
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  And they and they told FOX, you know, we're just going to let
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  you cover this many races. So don't be don't be feeling
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  sorry for NASCAR or anybody else or, you know, in other words,
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  there's more to the story. OK, NASCAR, you know that they
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  got all these all these streaming people got a lot of
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  lot of companies, lot of OK, let's just not even say
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  companies, a lot of avenues. How's that?
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  There's a lot of avenues to watch NASCAR now.
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  Well, they only gave the Fox TV people like 14 races.
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  When I say only, it's still a lot.
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  That's still a lot. There is, there is like a total
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  of 39 races, but you know, 14 and 14 is 28.
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  So it's, it's not near half. So Fox, they needed, they needed
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  to buy something more to put in the TV.
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  It wasn't enough. So the bottom line is, is you're
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  sitting over here with NASCAR. NASCAR is loaded up.
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  NASCAR's got a lot of money from all the TV people.
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  Billions of dollars, Billions of dollars.
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  NASCAR's looking good. They're in tall cotton, right?
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  Because they got all this TV coverage.
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  Well, Indy cars over here now, I understand that they're very
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  wealthy people. I get it.
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  I know Rodger Penske and I know the way that whole deal works,
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  OK? It's a little bit like a Country
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  Club. Even though I know you IndyCar
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  guys are listening to me and I'm not, I'm not bashing you
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  whatsoever. I'm painting the picture.
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  Rodger runs the whole damn thing, yet he runs his cars in
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  the league. OK, I'm I'm going for it.
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  I'm going for it. All right?
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  That's, that's kind of like Ferrari running Formula One and
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  and running in Formula One, but it's good because Rodger's the
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  man for the job. So with that being said, to me,
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  this is the greatest thing that's happened in IndyCar in
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  years. Have a major network put major
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  emphasis. OK, now I'm not an idiot, OK, I
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  know that I know that IndyCar is is, is being covered on other
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  networks in the past has been, I know that any car has been
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  covered, you know, by other networks, but they haven't been
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  promoted. And the big, the big thing about
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  IndyCar is although you and I know who they are, their their
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  ratings are horrible that they're the worst ever.
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  Now you know that we did a Kenny conversation with Michael
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  Andretti. So OK, so we we know, we know a
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  little bit. We we don't.
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  I know you're the greatest. I get it.
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  You know everything. You know everything except I
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  talked to Michael Andretti about this and he told me so go to
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  Kenny conversation and I've had a little conversation with
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  Rodger Penske. Yes, I have about Milwaukee.
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  So, so don't start, don't start, don't start.
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  I know. Say I know a little more than
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  you think I know. So the thing with Fox, Fox TV is
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  promoting IndyCar like nobody's ever promoted them ever.
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  Well, you know what's happening now, don't you?
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  Some of the NASCAR people are getting jealous.
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  Some of the NASCAR people are getting jealous.
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  All I can tell you is this last year down there in Alabama, one
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  of those IndyCar races got, I'm going to exaggerate a little
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  bit, had like 38,000 people watching and nobody knew where
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  where to get them. Now, I really like IndyCar
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  racing. I really like IndyCar racing.
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  I went I went a week before the Indy 500.
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  I admire those cars. I admire those drivers that
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  Joseph Newgarden, he's a badass out of Nashville, TN.
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  He's a driving son of a Santoni Ferrochi or whatever.
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  I love that name. He drives for AJ Foyt and don't
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  mess with AJ. It's kind of like don't mess
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  with Texas. So those Indigo guys are bad
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  ass. So my message to all my NASCAR
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  friends is this, calm down, calm down.
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  It's all good. Bill Elliot said this to me one
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  time. I'll never forget it.
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  There's enough room for all of us, OK?
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  There's enough room for all of us.
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  So you're going to see Fox promoting IndyCar, and here's
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  why. Because they've never been
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  promoted. IndyCar has never been promoted.
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  And it would be fantastic this crossover.
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  You got the Fox Network covering NASCAR and you got the Fox Net
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  Network covering, you know, IndyCar.
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  So it's a really good cross promotion.
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  I call it cross promotion IndyCar.
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  They got the Indy 500, which is to me, to me, the Indy
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  Indianapolis 500 is the biggest race in America by far.
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  You got the Indy 500, then you got the Daytona 500.
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  That's the way it is now. You know, I love NASCAR more
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  than IndyCar. I love NASCAR more than IndyCar,
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  but I grew up a little bit and I learned I was getting all the
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  information, looking at this whole deal.
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  So IndyCar has been that stepchild now, you know, they
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  got engineering and you know, they're wealthy and all that,
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  but there's a lot of wealthy people in NASCAR too.
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  But Rodger and Chip Ganassi, they just, they love their
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  Indycars. That's all there is to it.
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  They like, they like their Indycars.
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  So here's my final message to everybody in NASCAR and
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  everybody in IndyCar. There's enough room for both of
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  us, OK? Indycars, like the stepchild.
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  They've been stepped on as far as TV and promoting.
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  I don't ever think I've seen a time where IndyCar has been
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  promoted this much. And that's a good thing because
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  we're racing, baby. So years ago I went to buy a
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  motorcycle and I said sure, should I buy a Harley or a
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  Suzuki? And one of my buddies said as
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  long as you riding brother. So as long as long as we racing,
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  we're not going to start. We're not going to start a civil
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  war before between IndyCar and NASCAR because that's foolish.
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  IndyCar has been the stepchild all these years.
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  They do have the biggest race, the Indianapolis 500.
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  But the joke after the Indianapolis 500 is do you all,
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  do you all race these cars anywhere else?
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  It's sad, but true. So here's Indycar's opportunity.
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  Congratulations to Rodger Penske and the IndyCar racing League or
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  IndyCar, whatever the hell you want to call yourselves.
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  You know, it's like NASCAR's been NASCAR forever.
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  But sometimes you remember, I remember.
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  I'm old. Would you have car, IndyCar, all
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  these names? Don't, don't get mad at me.
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  I'm congratulating you all. I think it's fantastic.
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  All right, respond right here, everybody.
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  Have a great weekend.